- #1 Startup Company
97% matchVery Positive81% of 6,211 reviews2020
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!
Why similar: Management 28.3%, Economy 25.6%, Simulation 10.4%, Building 8.4%, Sandbox 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the essence of running a tech business, from hiring employees to managing servers and website development.
- #2 Software Inc.
96% matchVery Positive94% of 7,733 reviews2015
Dev: Coredumping
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 45.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.
Why similar: Economy 16.6%, Automation 14%, Management 12.8%, Building 12.4%, Online Co-Op 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: This is the closest match to Good Company, focusing on building a tech empire, managing office layouts, and developing software products.
- #3 Production Line : Car factory simulation
96% matchVery Positive82% of 3,474 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Automation 15.9%, Management 13.5%, Economy 13.1%, Building 9.6%, Base Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the assembly line mechanics and efficiency optimization found in Good Company.
- #4 Little Big Workshop
95% matchVery Positive84% of 3,380 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 14.6%, Management 12.4%, Economy 12%, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a charming, small-scale take on managing a workshop with complex production chains and worker logistics.
- #5 Captain of Industry
94% matchVery Positive90% of 11,125 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 14.6%, Economy 12.6%, Management 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes large-scale logistics, resource extraction, and factory automation within a challenging survival framework.
- #6 Factory Town
94% matchVery Positive91% of 4,454 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 18.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 10.4%, City Builder 10.3%, Sandbox 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on automating the transport of goods and managing complex production chains in a sandbox environment.
- #7 Factorio
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 231,662 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 45.0 hrsMean: 191.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 26.1%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 12.3%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: As the gold standard for automation, it provides the deep logistical challenges and resource management that fans of Good Company crave.
- #8 Satisfactory
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 274,659 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.8 hrsMean: 111.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 23.8%, Base Building 18.4%, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 10.1%, Co-op 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It translates the automation and production line mechanics of Good Company into a beautiful, first-person 3D environment.
- #9 Rise of Industry
92% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,178 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: Economy 16.9%, Management 13.6%, City Builder 12.9%, Resource Management 10.4%, Base Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a deep dive into supply chain management and economic strategy on a regional scale.
- #10 shapez 2 - Factory
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,749 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 24.7%, Management 13.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 12%, Sandbox 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It strips away the management fluff to focus entirely on the pure, satisfying logic of factory automation and conveyor belts.
- #11 Big Pharma
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,935 reviews2015
Dev: Twice CircledPub: Positech Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?
Why similar: Automation 18.2%, Management 16.1%, Economy 13.1%, Base Building 9.8%, Resource Management 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly combines product development with complex factory automation and supply chain management.
- #12 Dyson Sphere Program
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,085 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 26.6%, Base Building 17.6%, Building 11.7%, Resource Management 11.2%, Management 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It scales up the automation and logistics mechanics to a galactic level, perfect for those who enjoy complex production systems.
- #13 Automation Empire
90% matchMixed66% of 2,639 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 20.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Economy 10%, Building 8.7%, Sandbox 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the industrial side of automation, requiring players to build massive, interconnected logistics networks.
- #14 FOUNDRY
88% matchVery Positive81% of 3,864 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 15.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.3%, Resource Management 9.1%, Robots 9%
Why You'll Like It: This first-person factory builder emphasizes base-building and automation in an infinite, voxel-based world.
- #15 Big Ambitions
86% matchVery Positive93% of 13,173 reviews2023
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 25.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
Why similar: Economy 31.8%, Management 29%, Sandbox 11.9%, Resource Management 11.5%, Simulation 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a comprehensive business management experience where you must handle logistics, employees, and retail expansion.
- #16 The Colonists
87% matchVery Positive86% of 1,231 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Automation 16%, Economy 12.2%, City Builder 11.2%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: It features cute, settlement-based automation where you must manage supply chains to help your robots thrive.
- #17 Game Dev Tycoon
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 44,938 reviews2013
Dev: Greenheart Games 💚
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.
Why similar: Management 44.1%, Economy 19.7%, Simulation 17.6%, Strategy 8.9%, Sandbox 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the corporate growth and product development cycle of a tech company in a more accessible management format.
- #18 Techtonica
85% matchMixed65% of 3,219 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 17.2%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 9.4%, Online Co-Op 8.6%, City Builder 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It combines subterranean base-building with complex automation and resource management in a narrative-driven setting.
- #19 Airport CEO
84% matchVery Positive83% of 8,268 reviews2021
Dev: Apog Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build and manage an international airport!
Why similar: Automation 15.3%, Resource Management 11.8%, Economy 11.4%, Management 10.2%, Building 10%
Why You'll Like It: It offers deep management and logistics simulation, requiring you to handle complex passenger flow and facility operations.
- #20 SimAirport
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,031 reviews2020
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!
Why similar: Economy 16.9%, Base Building 15.2%, City Builder 15%, Building 12.8%, Management 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the construction and management of an airport, emphasizing logistics and operational efficiency.
- #21 Megaquarium
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,727 reviews2018
Dev: Twice Circled
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.
Why similar: Building 20.5%, Management 18.1%, Sandbox 17.9%, Economy 14%, Resource Management 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management and layout planning aspects, requiring careful organization to keep a business running smoothly.
- #22 One Military Camp
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 733 reviews2023
Dev: Abylight BarcelonaPub: Abylight Studios
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build your own military camp, manage the economy, recruit the best candidates and train them to become elite specialists. Send them on missions across the land to end the war once and for all!
Why similar: Economy 13.3%, Base Building 12.7%, City Builder 11.9%, Resource Management 10.6%, Management 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It blends base-building with management, requiring you to train staff and manage resources to keep your camp operational.
- #23 InfraSpace
82% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,928 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: Automation 17.5%, City Builder 12.3%, Economy 12.2%, Resource Management 9.9%, Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It combines city-building with a heavy emphasis on logistics and traffic management to keep your production lines moving.
- #24 Two Point Hospital
81% matchVery Positive92% of 34,720 reviews2018
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 35.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.
Why similar: Management 29.5%, Building 25%, Simulation 14.8%, Sandbox 11.1%, City Builder 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a polished management experience with a strong focus on employee logistics and facility layout optimization.
- #25 Mad Games Tycoon
81% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2016
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!
Why similar: Management 16.9%, Economy 15.5%, Base Building 12%, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a detailed look at the business side of game development, focusing on corporate strategy and product quality.
- #26 Alchemy Factory
77% matchVery Positive90% of 2,411 reviews2025
Dev: D5 CopperheadPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!
Why similar: Automation 24.4%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Crafting 7.4%
- #27 Kubifaktorium
79% matchVery Positive81% of 796 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Economy 12.5%, City Builder 12.1%, Building 10.4%, Base Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It features colony management and automation, requiring you to manage resources and production chains to expand your settlement.
- #28 Microtopia
77% matchVery Positive87% of 951 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 17.3%, Base Building 11.3%, City Builder 10.7%, Resource Management 10.1%, Robots 9.9%
- #29 Smart Factory Tycoon
80% matchMixed61% of 909 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Smart Factory Tycoon inspired by Little Big Workshop is a tycoon management game about running your dream factory with robots. Design your dream factory, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Management 10.4%, City Builder 10.2%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the factory management aspect, tasking you with building and optimizing a modern manufacturing facility.
- #30 Another Brick in The Mall
79% matchVery Positive83% of 2,437 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Management 14.9%, Building 13.2%, Economy 12.3%, City Builder 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the retail management side, requiring you to design layouts and manage staff to maximize profits.
- #31 Modulus: Factory Automation
76% matchVery Positive92% of 797 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 18.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 11.1%, Management 9.7%, City Builder 9.6%
- #32 Masterplan Tycoon
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 741 reviews2023
Dev: Bureau BravinPub: Ravenage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Welcome to the resource management game where your creativity and logistics skills are put to the test! In this minimalistic simulation you will build interconnected chains of products and open new missions by completing various tasks to create the biggest system you can.
Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Economy 14.6%, Resource Management 13.8%, Building 13.5%, Management 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a minimalist, node-based approach to resource management and production chains.
- #33 Project Highrise
78% matchVery Positive85% of 4,793 reviews2016
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 32.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
Why similar: Management 26.3%, Building 23.8%, Simulation 11.1%, Economy 11%, Sandbox 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the building and management aspects, requiring players to optimize space and utilities for a growing skyscraper.
- #34 Outworld Station
74% matchVery Positive85% of 799 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 21.6%, Base Building 14.7%, Co-op 9.9%, Management 9.4%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #35 Power to the People
76% matchVery Positive81% of 553 reviews2022
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
Why similar: Economy 17%, City Builder 13.3%, Management 13.1%, Building 12.9%, Resource Management 12%
- #36 Synergy
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,057 reviews2025
Dev: Leikir StudioPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.
Why similar: Economy 14.4%, City Builder 12.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #37 Per Aspera
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,722 reviews2020
Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Why similar: Automation 14.4%, Online Co-Op 14%, Base Building 10.2%, City Builder 9.6%, Building 8.4%
- #38 Mad Smartphone Tycoon
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 613 reviews2024
Dev: MiradilPub: Gamersky Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build Your smartphone Empire in Mad Smartphone Tycoon, your main goal in this game is to create the ultimate smartphone that combines both performance and aesthetics. Expand your company, dominate the global market, become a tycoon in the world of mobile phones!
Why similar: Management 17.7%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 11.2%, Economy 10.2%, City Builder 9.9%
- #39 Learning Factory
73% matchVery Positive86% of 519 reviews2025
Dev: Luden.io
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build intricate supply chains to meet your feline customers' needs. Discover underground and air transport layers, a vast research tree, procedural worlds, machine learning, and endless automation in this relaxing, enemyless game.
Why similar: Automation 17.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Economy 13.1%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #40 Common'hood
75% matchMixed51% of 339 reviews2022
Dev: Plethora Project
Windows
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Base Building 13.2%, Building 12.1%, Automation 11.4%, Economy 10.2%, Management 9.6%
- #41 City Bus Manager
71% matchVery Positive91% of 2,804 reviews2024
Dev: PeDePe GbRPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build your own bus depot from scratch and create your personal bus routes in City Bus Manager. Play in your own hometown or any famous city in the world with real map data. Buy buses, maintain them, take care of your staff and lead your bus company to become the #1 in town!
Why similar: Economy 29.5%, Management 22.2%, Sandbox 12.9%, Logic 12.3%, Simulation 11.3%
- #42 Blacksmith Master
70% matchVery Positive83% of 2,646 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Economy 15%, Base Building 14.4%, City Builder 13.6%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 11.8%
- #43 Indoorlands
72% matchVery Positive81% of 275 reviews2022
Dev: Pixelsplit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The indoor park management simulator where you can create your rides and coasters from scratch and freely design your halls. Manage, expand and develop your own park to inspire your guests. Satisfy your visitors' needs by unlocking and researching new buildings, rides, transportation and more!
Why similar: Building 15.3%, Management 15%, Resource Management 13.3%, City Builder 11.3%, Isometric 10.7%
- #44 Havendock
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,924 reviews2025
Dev: YYZ StudioPub: Pretty Soon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.
Why similar: Automation 16.5%, Base Building 11.5%, City Builder 11.3%, Building 10%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #45 Mad Games Tycoon 2
69% matchVery Positive94% of 7,699 reviews2023
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 36.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.
Why similar: Economy 19.6%, Management 16.6%, City Builder 12.1%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 10.8%
- #46 Gunsmith
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,043 reviews2018
Dev: SCT
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build up your own arms manufacturing company. Find your factory, buy resources, produce a wide range of military equipment to sell to the highest bidder. Good or bad? That's up to you, who you do business with is your choice. Don't ask, don't tell, get paid. After all, war is about making money.
Why similar: Base Building 17.4%, Management 15.1%, Automation 14.3%, Resource Management 13.7%, Crafting 9.9%
- #47 Industry Giant 4.0
71% matchMostly Negative37% of 556 reviews2025
Dev: Don VS DodoPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Build an industrial empire from scratch in Industry Giant 4.0. Produce goods, build up your industries, construct transportation networks, plan production, manage finances, and navigate global events. Become the next business tycoon and write history!
Why similar: Automation 16.7%, Economy 13.6%, Management 11.9%, City Builder 11.8%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #48 Blueprint Tycoon
72% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Management 24.9%, Economy 16.9%, Resource Management 15.7%, City Builder 15.2%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #49 Storage Guys
70% matchMixed46% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: Raynmakyr
Windows
Team up with friends and run your own storage! Receive, store and ship items to make a profit. Handle everything from boxes to hazardous goods. Design and expand your warehouse, manage workers and drivers, and keep supplies fully stocked.
Why similar: Automation 16.5%, Economy 13.7%, Resource Management 12.1%, Management 11.9%, Building 11%
- #50 Laysara: Summit Kingdom
67% matchVery Positive82% of 1,442 reviews2026
Dev: Quite OK GamesPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Why similar: Automation 15.3%, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 12%, Resource Management 11.2%, Economy 11.2%
- #51 Hardware Store Simulator
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Stellar Fusion StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Compete with up to 4 players to build the most successful hardware store! Design your shop, manage inventory, hire employees, and influence market prices in this detailed business simulator. Master retail management as you expand your store empire.
Why similar: Economy 12.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Building 9.8%, Management 9.6%
- #52 Sim Companies
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,069 reviews2023
Dev: Sim Companies s.r.o.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 89.4 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Build a business empire in a player-driven online economy. Manage supply chains, trade with thousands of players, dominate markets, research new products, and grow from a small startup into a global corporation.
Why similar: Economy 20.8%, Management 13.1%, Building 13%, Sandbox 12%, Isometric 9%
- #53 Industry Idle
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,478 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 18.9%, Base Building 12.3%, Economy 11.2%, Resource Management 11%, City Builder 10%
- #54 shapez
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,623 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Base Building 15.1%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 8.3%
- #55 Microtopia: Prologue
66% matchVery Positive94% of 122 reviews2024
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in this free version of Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
Why similar: Automation 18.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Resource Management 10.7%, City Builder 10.3%, Building 10.2%
- #56 Smart Factory Tycoon: Beginnings
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 504 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 20%
This is a free version of Smart Factory Tycoon, a game inspired by Little Big Workshop introducing the first productions. Smart Factory Tycoon is a tycoon management game where you design your dream factory with robots, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: Resource Management 15.7%, Management 14.6%, City Builder 9.6%, Sandbox 8.4%, Automation 8.1%
- #57 Incremental Factory
68% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Resource Management 13.2%, Economy 11.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 9.6%
- #58 Block Factory
66% matchMostly Positive78% of 263 reviews2025
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Block Factory is a relaxing and creative building game where you craft delightful 3D figurines from blocks. Shape your designs and build flowing production lines in a peaceful factory world.
Why similar: Automation 18.3%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 10.7%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #59 Factory Engineer
71% matchMixed46% of 133 reviews2017
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Factory Engineer is a factory simulation game which is about creating a huge automated factory by building production lines to create products and make money. Start with simple products,make money,unlock technologies then create the most sophisticated products.
Why similar: Automation 15.6%, Building 15.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Base Building 12.7%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #60 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
67% matchVery Positive81% of 1,753 reviews2020
Dev: SquarePlay Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Design and build the most efficient metro stations known to man! Excavate. Expand. Set staff priorities. And manage the commuter flow. Overcrowd is a 2.5D management/tycoon/simulator set below the bustling city of Lubdon Town.
Why similar: City Builder 13.8%, Management 12.9%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 10.3%